The most dangerous prisoner in the UK: The 71-year-old Robert Maudsley has filed a formal complaint against his relocation to Whitemoor Prison in Cambridge, and he may yet be sent back to his “glass cage” cell in Wakefield Prison.
The longest-serving prisoner in Britain is extremely unhappy after his transfer and wants to return to his glass cage cell at “Monster Mansion.” Robert Maudsley, 71, is formally appealing his April transfer from Wakefield jail to Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire, which occurred following a heated argument with authorities on his privileges.
He is so miserable that he want to return to West Yorkshire and visit the prison known as Monster Mansion, which houses a large number of dangerous prisoners. Loveinia MacKenney, his lover, told him, “They are holding back his appeal papers which ask why he has been transferred.”
“They are causing him unnecessary hardship, which is wrong. It should be his punishment that they have deprived him of his freedom. He is not in good health and has been on a hunger strike. I worry so much for him.
To be nearer to his family, he wishes to return to Wakefield, she said. There, he had been an ideal prisoner, and nothing had changed. There, he had more freedom, and I could send him cards and letters three times a week.
After killing three other inmates while incarcerated, he was once considered the nation’s most dangerous prisoner. Because of his history of severe violence, he had to be kept isolated from the other inmates in Wakefield, with guards checking on him via a perspex window.
A report that Maudsley had eaten one of his victims’ brains led to his being dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal; this claim was later refuted, but the moniker stuck.
The killer has now been confined to his cell alone for more than 17,000 days in a row. A dispute about the “privileges” in Wakefield jail, often known as Monster Mansion, led to his removal in April.
After several weeks of going on a hunger strike and not eating, Maudsley has resumed his eating habits. He is being kept on a specialized wing at Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire after being transported there.
Visiting him from their home in Merseyside has proven difficult for his brothers Paul and Kevin. He fell in love with Loveinia, 69, who writes to him daily, according to The Mirror.
“He had Covid 19 twice and nearly died,” Loveinia, a Londoner, told us. He is gradually dying under this new government.
I think that when they transferred him, they were aware of the danger. He is completely different today; he can’t write the way he used to because he believes his letters are being read, and living without a TV or radio is barbarous.” Loveinia fears that Maudsley’s death is being instigated by the new administration and the hunger strike.
When the murderer wrote to her about his wretched upbringing, in which he was placed in foster care because of abuse and neglect at home, she became close to Maudsley.
Maudsley first faced imprisonment for manslaughter in 1974, when he was just 21 years old. Already serving his life sentence, Maudsley murdered two other inmates at Wakefield jail on July 28, 1978. A prison officer reportedly heard him say, “There’ll be two short on the roll call.”
In 1974, he killed another inmate at the Broadmoor Secure Hospital. The nicknames Maudsley earned came from the fact that the victim was discovered with a plastic spoon blade in his ear.
Amidst allegations that he had consumed his brain, he was initially referred to as “Spoons” and later as Hannibal the Cannibal. That was obviously not the case, as the post mortem found.
Wakefield provided special treatment to Maudsley.
In the 1991 Oscar-winning film “Silence of the Lambs,” Anthony Hopkins’s character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, was housed in a cell that was comparable to his own. The Prison Service refused to comment on specific inmates. But according to a source, the UK jail system does not use solitary confinement for inmates.
